Florian Bodamer, a 2017 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was recently awarded the Eilts Award for best graduate thesis at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies. Bodamer, who recently completed a MA in International Affairs, won the award for his thesis titled Power, Plenty, Prestige, and Interest Groups: […]
Philip Rotz, a PhD candidate in the Boston University History Department and a 2016 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently authored an editorial exploring the transmission of viruses — such as chikungunya, dengue, yellow fever, and Zika — transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito in urban coastal areas of South Africa. […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce its 2018 Graduate Summer Fellows. These 10 outstanding Boston University graduate students represent six different BU schools/colleges: Arts & Sciences, Social Work, the Pardee School, and for the first time in the program’s history, Metropolitan, Communication, and Sargent. Starting May 29th, the Graduate Summer Fellows will spend 10 […]
Moeed Yusuf, a former Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently authored a new book on nuclear crisis management in South Asia. The book, titled Brokering Peace in Nuclear Environments: U.S. Crisis Management in South Asia (Stanford University Press), proposes an original theory of brokered bargaining to better understand […]
Application deadline: Monday, March 12, 2018 Download application instructions Applications are now being accepted for the 2018 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows Program, which offers graduate students from across Boston University an opportunity for intensive interdisciplinary research and writing on topics aligned with the broad research interests of BU’s Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study […]
Andrew Trlica, a PhD candidate in the Department of Earth & Environment and a 2015 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, is the first author on a recent paper titled “Albedo, Land Cover, and Daytime Surface Temperature Variation Across an Urbanized Landscape” published in the journal […]
Radost Stanimirova, a PhD candidate in the Department of Earth & Environment and a 2016 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently presented her research on how climate change and land management are affecting the sustainability of rangelands in South America at the 2017 Fall […]
Calynn Dowler, a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology and a 2017 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently presented a paper at the 46th Annual Conference on South Asia in Madison, Wisconsin. Dowler’s paper, titled “Migration and Environment in India’s Sundarbans Islands: Linking Public […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future has published a new paper in its Issues in Brief series. The paper, titled “Governance Issues in China’s Food Sufficiency vs. Virtual Water Debate,” was written by Junda Jin, a 2015 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow and a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at Boston University. Rapid […]
The 2017 session of the Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows program concluded on Friday, August 4 as the Summer Fellows submitted their final research papers. The eight BU graduate students spent 10 weeks at the Pardee Center, conducting research and writing papers as well as participating in a series of lunch meetings with Boston University […]